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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: bill on January 21, 2014, 02:11:03 AM

Title: Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
Post by: bill on January 21, 2014, 02:11:03 AM
Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You (http://discuss.howtogeek.com/t/warning-your-browser-extensions-are-spying-on-you/12394)

Nice list of Chrome extensions that are spying on you.
Title: Re: Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
Post by: rcjordan on January 21, 2014, 02:17:10 AM
I ddn't post because it's mainstream news, but G just tossed some ext out of chrome for inserting ads.  I'll stick it here just in case a core member is under a rock ...or in Japan.
Title: Re: Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
Post by: bill on January 23, 2014, 01:44:22 AM
Hard to keep up with mainstream when the Chinas are attacking our uninhabited rocks out in the middle of the ocean...
Title: Re: Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
Post by: werty on February 05, 2014, 05:38:47 AM
Also the entire chrome browser!

I have added ghostery on my browsers these day. Amazing that a "news site" ads like 40 ads / tracking items on each page view.
Title: Re: Warning: Your Browser Extensions Are Spying On You
Post by: bill on February 05, 2014, 05:49:27 AM
After using Ghostery for about a year I found it was starting to interfere with a lot of sites. I switched from Ghostery to Disconnect and things cleared up quite a bit. However, that's all cookie tracking related.

However, these more nefarious extensions are injecting ads into sites and possibly sending other private data back to their developers.